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Benchmark image 10

Hot Dog

Hot dog "Sandwich"

A hot dog sits in its split bun, the most litigated piece of street food in American semantics. One continuous bread artifact, one sausage, infinite discourse from people who should probably log off.

Under development: this benchmark and its published results are provisional, not final.

Human
39.8% yes60.2% no
Model average
54.2% yes45.8% no
Most aligned model
meta-llama/llama-4-maverick
Meta / Llamameta-llama/llama-4-maverick
Least aligned models
11-way tie
GPT / OpenAIopenai/o3-proGPT / OpenAIopenai/gpt-5.4-proGPT / OpenAIopenai/gpt-4o+8 more
At a glance

How this photo split the room

Human distribution
39.8% yes, 60.2% no over 653 explicit votes.
Model average distribution
54.2% yes, 45.8% no across the current model set.
Closest current model
42.2% yes.

meta-llama/llama-4-maverick

Least aligned models
60.2 point gap.

11-way tie

Legacy GPT-4o baseline
82.0% yes with a 42.2 point gap against humans.
Biggest model gap
60.2 percentage points on this image.
Current classification
Split concept
Why this page matters

This is the compact read on where humans, models, and comments start disagreeing about the same image.

Model spread

How models line up against the crowd

Bars run from more no on the left to more yes on the right. The marker shows the human yes rate.

Amazonamazon/nova-lite-v1

100.0% no0.0% yes

Rank #17Gap 39.8%

Claudeanthropic/claude-opus-4.6

100.0% no0.0% yes

Rank #23Gap 39.8%

Baidu / ERNIEbaidu/ernie-4.5-vl-28b-a3b

100.0% no0.0% yes

Rank #27Gap 39.8%

Googlegoogle/gemma-3-12b-it

100.0% no0.0% yes

Rank #11Gap 39.8%

Pixtral / Mistralmistralai/pixtral-large-2411

100.0% no0.0% yes

Rank #16Gap 39.8%

Qwenqwen/qwen-2-vl-72b-instruct

100.0% no0.0% yes

Rank #12Gap 39.8%

Qwenqwen/qwen2.5-vl-32b-instruct

100.0% no0.0% yes

Rank #14Gap 39.8%

Qwenqwen/qwen2.5-vl-72b-instruct

98.0% no1.9% yes

Rank #28Gap 37.9%

Meta / Llamameta-llama/llama-4-scout

95.0% no5.0% yes

Rank #13Gap 34.8%

Grok / xAIx-ai/grok-4-fast

90.9% no9.1% yes

Rank #5Gap 30.7%

Amazonamazon/nova-pro-v1

90.3% no9.7% yes

Rank #30Gap 30.1%

Kimi / Moonshotmoonshotai/kimi-k2.5

90.2% no9.8% yes

Rank #4Gap 30.0%

Z.AI / GLMz-ai/glm-4.6v

71.2% no28.8% yes

Rank #19Gap 11.0%

Meta / Llamameta-llama/llama-4-maverick

57.8% no42.2% yes

Rank #26Gap 2.4%

Meta / Llamameta-llama/llama-3.2-11b-vision-instruct

45.7% no54.3% yes

Rank #1Gap 14.5%

GPT / OpenAIopenai/gpt-4o-mini

30.0% no70.0% yes

Rank #21Gap 30.2%

Geminigoogle/gemini-2.5-pro

23.5% no76.5% yes

Rank #7Gap 36.7%

GPT / OpenAIopenai/gpt-4.1-mini

16.1% no83.9% yes

Rank #18Gap 44.0%

GPT / OpenAIopenai/o3

9.7% no90.3% yes

Rank #24Gap 50.4%

Qwenqwen/qwen3.5-397b-a17b

1.8% no98.2% yes

Rank #6Gap 58.4%

Claudeanthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6

0.0% no100.0% yes

Rank #22Gap 60.2%

Geminigoogle/gemini-3-flash-preview

0.0% no100.0% yes

Rank #32Gap 60.2%

Geminigoogle/gemini-3.1-pro-preview

0.0% no100.0% yes

Rank #10Gap 60.2%

Googlegoogle/gemma-3-27b-it

0.0% no100.0% yes

Rank #15Gap 60.2%

MiniMaxminimax/minimax-01

0.0% no100.0% yes

Rank #29Gap 60.2%

GPT / OpenAIopenai/gpt-4.1

0.0% no100.0% yes

Rank #31Gap 60.2%

GPT / OpenAIopenai/gpt-4o

0.0% no100.0% yes

Rank #9Gap 60.2%

GPT / OpenAIopenai/gpt-4o-2024-11-20

0.0% no100.0% yes

Rank #25Gap 60.2%

GPT / OpenAIopenai/gpt-5.4

0.0% no100.0% yes

Rank #20Gap 60.2%

GPT / OpenAIopenai/gpt-5.4-pro

0.0% no100.0% yes

Rank #8Gap 60.2%

GPT / OpenAIopenai/o3-pro

0.0% no100.0% yes

Rank #3Gap 60.2%

Selected human comments

  • you favorite
  • only if the bun is separated
  • No, it is a photo of a hot dog.

meta-llama/llama-4-maverick comments

  • A hot dog is a sausage served in a bun, but Merriam-Webster defines a sandwich as 'two or more slices of bread or a split roll having a filling in between.' The bun is not sliced in two separate pieces.
  • A hot dog is a type of sandwich with a single piece of meat in a single bun.

google/gemini-3-flash-preview comments

  • Under the 'Cube Rule' of food classification, a hot dog is technically a taco because it is encased on three sides. However, broadly defined as filling between bread, it qualifies. It is a sub-category of sandwich often debated for its unique bun.
  • Under the 'Cube Rule' of food classification, a hot dog is technically a taco because it is enclosed on three sides by a single piece of starch. However, in a broad culinary sense, meat served inside a split bun is a form of sandwich.
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